March 6

Feasts

Monk-martyrs Conon, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270-275);
Martyrs Cyriacus and 12 companions, who suffered under Diocletian in Augsburg (c. 304);
Martyr Euphrosynus, in boiling water;
Monk-martyr Maximus, by stoning;
The uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by Empress St. Helena (326);
Venerable Arcadius, monk of Cyprus (361), and his disciples Julian and Euboulos;
Saint Arkadios, Archbishop of Cyprus;
Venerable Hesychius the Wonderworker;
The holy 42 Martyrs of Amorium (in Phrygia), including: Passion-bearers Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, Basoes, and others, in Samarra (845);
Saint Marcian of Tortona (120);
Saint Patrick of Avernia (c. 307);
Saint Basil of Bologna, Bishop of Bologna (335);
Saint Fridolin of Säckingen, abbot, Enlightener of the Upper Rhine (5th-6th centuries);
Saints Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba, female members of the Mercian royal family in 7th century England (c. 680);
Saint Baldred of Tyninghame (Balther), a priest in Lindisfarne who became a hermit at Tyningham on the Scottish border (756);
Saint Chrodegang of Metz, Bishop of Metz in the east of France, he took part in several Councils (766);
Saint Bilfrid (Billfrith), a hermit at Lindisfarne and an expert goldsmith, who bound in gold the Lindisfarne Gospels, written and illuminated by Bishop Edfrith (8th century);
Saint Cathróe of Metz (Cadroe, Cadroel) (976);
Venerable Job (Joshua in schema) of Anzersk Island, Solovki (1720);
Other Commemorations:
Translation to Vladimir (1230) of the relics of Martyr Abraham of the Bulgars on the Volga (1229)
Repose of Helen Kontzevitch, Church writer (1989)
Icons:
"Chenstokhovskaya" (Poland) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Black Madonna of Częstochowa);
"Blessed Heaven" (Moscow) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos;
The Shestokhovsk ("Hearth"), or Sheltomezhsk, Icon of the Mother of God (18th century).